Across the country, academics, journalists and researchers are mapping their state’s news and information ecosystems.
Their methodologies differ, but such initiatives seek to make sense of the splintered reality of where people are getting their local news and information. Often, it’s not just from a legacy news organization such as a community newspaper, TV station or a notch on the radio dial.
Local news mapping in communities goes back more than a decade. But ever since researchers at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University created a first-of-its-kind interactive news map of New Jersey in 2020, similar projects have exploded.